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While the Wrangell Medical Center is currently in a transitional phase, having lost 8 of the 9 members of the WMC Board of Directors, and with the dismissal of former CEO Noel Rea, the day-to-day operation of the hospital is running at full-speed-ahead under interim CEO Olinda White. White, who took over as CEO after the June 20 firing of Rea, said maintaining excellent patient care, and working on staffing and training issues are at the forefront of her mind. “We’re really busy right now trying to center everything we do on patient care, qua...
January The Wrangell School Board found $128,451 in additional, unspent funding from a federal program. In passing their 2011 budget, the board also accepted an $8,300 grant for the Upward Bound program. Master carvers Steve Brown and Wayne Price visited Shakes Island to begin discussions on the renovation of the Tribal House and to propose a traditional tools class. The US Forest Service began a scoping project for an Environmental Impact Study regarding timber sales and road construction for...
The Wrangell Medical Center Board of Directors held their regular meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 22 at the WMC meeting room to hear the monthly report from CEO Noel Selle-Rea, receive a letter in support of Dr. Greg Salard and address action items on the agenda. At the beginning of the meeting, a letter from WMC nurse Beth Kuehn, read to the board by Laura Salard during public comment, came out in favor of Dr. Salard and implored the board to keep him on staff at WMC. “It is my hope that after r...
The decade-old Alaska Island Community Services “Crossings” program may be searching for its soul in the coming months after a round of federal budget cuts cost a number of employees their jobs last week. A group of nine full- and part-time core staff members from the program, the largest wilderness therapy program for emotionally at-risk teens in the State of Alaska, received letters on Friday, Nov. 4 telling them their positions were being eliminated due to “unforeseen circumstances.” The let...
